Youth and society.
youth as a group of social companies. The problem of youth self-identification
Each new generation, entering into public life, inherits the already achieved level of development of society and developed a certain way of life. But it can not automatically be included in the life processes of society without their prior development. Therefore, knowledge, abilities, desire to live and act "as it should" in this community are a necessary prerequisite for the entry of young people into society.
Society, taking care of self-preservation and striving to ensure conflict-free life, is trying to give a new generation of group survival skills developed in this community. That is, to form a mechanism of social adaptation of young people, which would turn the new generation into an organic part and likeness of the existing society. Or, in other words, the aim and purpose of socialization is the formation of an individual like himself, living and acting as an element of this community, bearing his signs and having his experience. Responsible and ensuring the preservation and survival of myself as a member of this society and this society as its second, collective, I am in a relationship with other groups.
In addition, as noted by E. Fromm, E. Durkheim and others, if it is possible to adapt the individual to specific social conditions and to form an individual character in accordance with the main features of the dominant social character here, then the person will act with the greatest productivity necessary and useful for society, ie. On the other hand, the transfer in the process of socialization of the experience and knowledge accumulated and retained by a social group over the centuries not only likens the individual to a group of interest, but also allows him to use this capital in his own interests. Therefore, in a pragmatic framework, socialization is also good for the individual, because, mastering the collective experience of survival and effective activity, the individual becomes able to solve a number of problems and can achieve their goals, including their own. For the full personal development of the individual, he needs an organized social space. It is formed and provided by the group or community in which it is inscribed as its element. The personal formation of the individual and his successful integration into society is accompanied by the process of his self-identification, the formation of his social identity. These are subjective feelings and objectively observed quality of personal identity, feeling of unity and continuity with the social environment. Identifying with another person, group, model, realizing himself as part of a community of people, a person shares their values, their ideas about the world and the place of man in it. This helps him to master different activities, to master social roles, to adopt and transform social norms and values. Therefore, the first main problem of youth and socialization, K. Manheim said, is the discovery of one's own "I". This is happening somewhere in 14-16 years. Then begins the self-identification of a young person with an increasing number of social groups by age, occupation, interests, national and ethnic origin, citizenship, class and so on. Man, having organized his activities in social space and time, has historically developed with this society.
In ancient society, not yet grown to the value of individuality, the subject of activity was the genus. The individual did not perceive himself separately from his kind, but opposed one species to another. At the same time, the identity of the members of one group as opposed to the members of another group is important. Without such identification, it is impossible to formalize the relevant relationships between groups.
At first, the specificity of man was separated and opposed to animals and gods. It was operationalized in the historically established norms of subject-practical activity and collective life, customs, traditions, value systems, rituals, techniques, sacred meanings, expressing and formalizing relations with the saving and patronizing forces. These rituals and ceremonies, filled with meaning, elevating man over the usefulness and ordinariness of biological existence, were a means of self-identification. They gave a person a sense of belonging and an experience of unity with the life of their community, self-awareness of themselves unlike others. Later, the specific features and actions in which man conceptualized himself as a special kind of being were supplemented by sociocultural characteristics that distinguished one human society from another.
he spring had been very cold, with prolonged frosts and snow blizzards. Already the 8th of March has long since passed, and the earth was still beneath the thick layer of snow.
For spring break I went to the village to the grandmother. It was a great joy, because I loved with all the heart fabulous house with carved shutters, warm bed with a lazy cat Котофеем and, of course, his old, but very energetic grandmother, great master bake pies.
By the howling storm, on a little railway station, I was put into a huge sleigh covered with shaggy coat and drove through a snow-covered forest. The winter sun quickly rolled over the tops of the pines and at once it got dark. I pictured myself as a heroine of a fairy tale «Twelve months» and all the time looking for eyes glow of the flame of the fire in the forest.
Soon we came to a wood, thickly from the snow, крылечку and I jumped in his grandmother's arms. Котофей dissatisfied wiggled his moustache, and reluctantly turned on the other side, giving me a place on the couch. Hot cakes reached for the door of the furnace, and I drank goat's milk, quietly fell asleep.
Woke me up drops. From the ice-icicles large beads trickling of crystal and clear up against the window sill on the billions of sparkling bead. I pulled on the boots, put on a dressing jacket, and, snatching a hat, ran out on the porch. All around rang and sang several different voices. With hillock trickling streams, and their passes woven into the overall Symphony. Grandmother waved to me from the garden, and I was skipping rushed to her. In a small, оттаявшей spot near the thin, brittle stems rocked the soft, velvety head snowdrops. I sat down beside her grandmother, and we silently, in a single impulse, beheld the unearthly beauty, with bated breath.-
есна выдалась холодной, с затяжными морозами и снежными метелями. Уже и праздник 8 марта давно а земля все еще лежала под толстым слоем снега.
На весенние каникулы меня отправили в деревню к бабушке. Это была большая радость, потому что я любила всем сердцем сказочную избушку с резными ставнями, теплую лежанку с ленивым котом Котофеем и, конечно, свою старенькую, но очень энергичную бабушку, большую мастерицу выпекать пироги.
Под завывание вьюги, на маленькой, железнодорожной станции, меня погрузили в огромные сани, накрыли лохматой шубой и повезли через заснеженный лес. Зимнее солнце быстро закатилось за верхушки сосен и сразу стемнело. Я представила себя героиней сказки «Двенадцать месяцев» и все время искала глазами отблеск пламени костра в лесной чаще.
Вскоре мы подъехали к деревянному, очищенному от снега, крылечку и я спрыгнула в бабушкины объятия. Котофей недовольно пошевелил усами и нехотя перевалился на другой бок, уступая мне место на лежанке. Горячие пирожки доходили за заслонкой печи, а я, напившись козьего молока, незаметно уснула.
Разбудила меня капель. С ледяных сосулек крупными бусинами стекали хрустальные капли и звонко разбивались о подоконник на миллиарды сверкающих бисеринок. Я натянула сапожки, одела курточку и, схватив шапочку, выскочила на крыльцо. Все вокруг звенело и пело разными голосами. С пригорков стекали ручьи, и их журчание вплеталось в общую симфонию. Бабушка махнула мне рукой из палисадника, и я вприпрыжку помчалась к ней. На маленькой, оттаявшей полянке на тонких, хрупких стебельках качались нежные, бархатные головки подснежников. Я присела возле бабушки, и мы молча, поддавшись единому порыву, созерцали эту неземную красоту, затаив дыхание.
